The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-25

| IHE IennSylvanla legislature has passed
a congressional apportionment bill which
gives the republicans four districts in Phla-
delpha and does not interfere with Ran
dall's district.
BoYLsToN MARKET in Boston, built in 1910,
according to the design of Charles Bulhnch,
the architect of the state-house, is about to
be torn down to give place to big clothing
establishment.
FIFTEEN or twenty robbers boarded
train on the International & Great Northern
road at McNeal's station, Texas, and took
money and jewels from the passengers
valued at SOL 600.
JAY GOULD says the government will
have to make large concessions Of both prin-
| cipal and interest to the Union Pacific when
the bonds become due, because the road
can never pay them.
J. RAY SHEPPARD, a reporter of the Phila-
delphia Record, and e. j. Isaacs, a reporter
of the Philadelphia Press, were run over by
an express-train and killed at Germantown
Junction, Pa, Saturday night
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN of New York has
received letter from Pope Leo XIII. in
regard to the McGlynn case. 1t commends
the course of the archbishop, and, it is said,
inclosed in the missive was direct letter to
Father McGlynn.
THE aggregate of losses by fire in the
! United States for the week ending May 81
was 80, 1913 900. The losses since January
rate, if sustained, the aggregate of losses for
1887 will be S107, 292 G62.
JUDGE COOLEY, chairman of the interstate
commerce committee has made reply to an
appeal of the Northwestern railroad urging
the suspension of the long and short-haul
clause in the law. He says that to do so
would be a stretch of authority.
THE steamships " Britannia =" and Celtic &"
collided in fog three hundred fifty miles
east of Sandy Hook May 10. Four steerage
passengers were killed by the shock and
several injured. The vessels were some
what damaged, but have arrived in port
COLONEL CHARLES b. MORTON of Augusta,
Me-, commissioner of navigation, says he
does not believe Mr.. Blaine will make
his alleged contemplated European trip.
| Colonel Morton says he has received posi-
tive assurances to this effect from Augusta.
THE Anti-poverty Society held the first
public meeting since its organization in the
Academy of Music, New York, Sunday
night. There were addresses by Henry
George, Rev Hugh o. Pentecost and others.
The Pope's letter against DR. McGlynn was
scathingly denounced and McGlynn was
eulogized as martyr
AN unknown Frenchman, breathless,
boarded the train on the Providence road at
! Boston, as il was leaving, to capture his
daughter, who was clipping. He had neither
money nor ticket, and the conductor
threatened him with arrest when the train
should reach Providence, but at Sharon he
jumped off and was killed.
The Sixty-fifth French Canadian Regi-
ment has been refused permission to visit
Highgate Springs, Vt, to celebrate the
| Queens birthday. The minister of militia
thinks it unwise to allow the trip, in view
of the present ill-feeling between the two
countries. The soldiers are very angry.
They intended to go without arms.
A STRANGER entered the house of John
IN DnAA ,a1, .
him with exposure of some secret if he did
not pay handsomely. A pistol was used to
enforce the demand. Bates quickly slipped
ont of the room, fastening the door, and
called the police, hut the black-mailer es-
capped by a window. Detectives are after
| h IN.
SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARCoURT's test
amendment to the crimes bill was defeated
| in the house of commons by a vote of 242 to
$50. The first clause of the bill was adopted
| by vote of III to 70. Notice was given of
eighty amendments to the second clause,
the principal one of which seeks to exempt
combinations of tenants from the operation
| of the clause.
Mr.. O'BRIEN carried out his purpose, last
| Thursday, and addressed great crowd in
Queens Park, Toronto. There was dis
turbing element present, but it was so
greatly in the minority, and the police force
acting on the side OF order, only a few in
the crowd were injured and no one seriously.
The counter demonstration was chiefly in
the way of back talk
THE requirement of the interstate COM
merce act that all the freight schedules be
printed in plea type has created an enor
nous demand for this type, of which print
ers do not keep large stocks. The type
foundries are running day and night to sup
ply the demand. The resetting of all sched-
ules will cost the railroads hundreds of
thousands of dollars for printing.
THE cholera is raging in Bolivia and
Chill, one in the northern and the other in
the southern part of South America. The
epidemic is described as of very malig-
nant type in Bolivia, and panic in the
province where it has broken out is one of
the results. In Santiago, the capital of
Chill, the disease is clearly traceable to the
extremely filthy condition of the place.
O'BRIEN left Kingston for days rest
at Niagara Falls. Monday night he spoke
at Hamilton, going thence to Montreal. He
will go from Montreal to Boston, and speak
last in New York. United States Consul
Hotchkiss, who refused to loan the Amer-
can flag for meeting in Ottawa, is reported
to have said that he did so because he did
not approve of O'Brien's mission to Canada.
A DISPATCH from Ironwood, Mich, new
mining town near the Wisconsin line, states
that Sunday evening heavy forest fires had
burned their way to within half mile of
the town and were being rapidly driven on
ny SJrOHB DTetZe. All UHt lnHdDltdntS
were fighting the fire, with little hopes of
saving the town. A powder magazine had
exploded, and at last accounts another one
containing 1000 pounds of giant powder
was surrounded by fire.
THE action of the Episcopal diocesan con-
vention at Columbia, S. c., which adjourned
recently, is the absorbing topic everywhere
and was dwelt upon in numbers of sermons
at that place Sunday before last. The great
majority OF Episcopalians are in deadly
opposition to the negro being admitted into
conventions, and the preachers have but
few friends in the stand they have taken.
1t is believed that if the negro is allowed to
vote in the conventions in ten or fifteen
years he will govern the body. A PROPOSE
ton was made by some members to organ
ize and discharge all the preachers opposed
TO them and favoring the admission of the
colored man into the convention, and to
elect ministers who would vote to exclude
the negro.
Two young men were sleeping in an
upper room of burning building in Brook
Ign Thursday. Rover a Newfoundland dog,
discovered the fire, and, not needing the
flames, ran to the room where the men
slept. He pulled one of the men from the
bed, and that not rousing him Rover put
his teeth TO the mans ankles, shoulders
and hands. The man was dazed, but the
dog WINGED not until he had aroused the
human being so that he was able TO flee to
the locked street-door. Here Rover howled,
and the crowd outside knew what that
meant They broke in the door, and thus